Southern says she was detained in the French port town of Calais Sunday night by British authorities under the Schedule 7 Anti-Terrorism act, which allows law enforcement to stop, search and interrogate those under ‘reasonable suspicion’ of being involved in terrorism. Accusing her of the distribution of ‘racist’ (What ‘race’ is Islam?) material, British immigration authorities ultimately banned her from entering the country.

FOX News Southern made the claim via a series of tweets on Monday morning. The activist says she was on a bus traveling to England Sunday night in order to appear at a free speech event. Border police, however, stopped her from entering the country, citing “racism” as their rationale for blocking her entry into the country:

Canadian right-wing journalist and activist Lauren Southern was barred from entering the United Kingdom on Monday, purportedly over a poster she distributed about Islam in February — making her the latest international right-wing figure to be denied entry to the U.K. after criticizing the religion.

The U.K. Home Office confirmed to Fox News that Southern was refused entry to the U.K. at the border in Calais, France on the grounds that her entry was not “conducive to the public good.”

“Border Force has the power to refuse entry to an individual if it is considered that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good,” a Home Office spokesman said in a statement. The spokesman did not offer specifics as to why her entry was refused.

Southern, speaking to Fox News from France, said that she was to visit friends in the U.K., including Tommy Robinson — the controversial founder of the right-wing English Defense League who is also known for his fiery criticism of Islam. Southern said she was detained for six hours at the Calais border port, had her phone taken from her as she was held in a detention center and questioned for four hours in a line of interrogation she described as “bizarre.”

“They asked me if I’m a Christian extremist, asked me how I feel about running over people with cars,” she told Fox News. “They asked me about Tommy Robinson, asked how I would describe myself politically, asked me how I would describe nationalism.”

Southern said a notice of refusal of entry she was given cited a prior “distribution of racist materials” in February in Luton, which the document said “represents a threat to the fundamental interests of society and to the public policy of the United Kingdom.”

Both Southern and Robinson told Fox News that the material being referred to was a social experiment in which they passed around a fake “LGBT for Islam UK” poster that said: “Allah is Gay, Allah is Trans, Allah is Lesbian, Allah is Intersex, Allah is Feminist, Allah is Queer, Allah is All of Us.”

Among the reasons she was detained is “distribution of racist material in Luton.” Here’s a copy of the letter to Southern from British authorities concluding that she presents a “threat to the fundamental interests of society and to the public policy of the United Kingdom.”

The experiment in Luton, which has a significant Islamic population, was in response to a Vice article that asked whether Jesus was gay, and was conducted to show what the Islamic reaction would be if a similar claim was made about Allah.

Southern’s latest book “Barbarians: How the Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed My Generation” includes a recommendation from U.S. commentator Ann Coulter: “Buy this book before liberals ban it.”

But Southern told Fox that her treatment at the U.K. border indicates that something new may be afoot. “It seems it could be marking the end of conservative speech in the U.K. or the beginning of an era of serious censorship,” Southern said.

Southern’s ban comes days after right-wing activists Martin Sellner and Brittany Pettibone, of the group “Generation Identity,” were refused entry to the U.K. when they landed at Luton Airport on Friday. According to the Home Office, they were both detained and eventually removed on Sunday after being judged that their presence was also “not conducive to the public good.”

The move by the U.K. government is likely to fuel long-standing claims from right-wing commentators (as well as some on the left) that Islam is given unique protection from criticism by European leaders — who have also struggled to grapple with a wave of Islamic extremism coming in part from mass migration.

“Fascinating that the U.K. Border Force allows so many illegals to slip through the cracks, but it’s suddenly the most competent Border Force in the world when it comes to banning two female conservative independent journalists and an Identitarian activist,” Pettibone said on Twitter after her release.

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The British authorities must be really scared of a repeat of the 2011 riots which was triggered by the police shooting of Mark Duggan.

Anyway what is happening in United Kingdom is leading to the destruction of British Liberalism which has survived two world wars. This whole process makes me weep, because I used to hold the United Kingdom as one of the greatest countries in the world.

“those under ‘reasonable suspicion’ of being involved in terrorism.”
Ummmm while they allow with open arms the returning isis fighter and muzslime in general!!!!!! The audacity is getting stupiderer and stupiderer. “The truth shall become a lie and lies shall become truth” Britain is SOOOOOOOOO sick.I’m thinking the place is beyond any form of being saved from itself. GUNS, GUNS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO STILL HAVE A PARTICLE OF SANE HUMANITY LEFT!!!!!!!

“under the Schedule 7 Anti-Terrorism act, which allows law enforcement to stop, search and interrogate those under ‘reasonable suspicion’ of being involved in terrorism”

Evil has become good and good has become evil.

Making TRUTHFUL statements about Islam and protesting against Muslim, massive Gang Rapes, Tortures and Sex Slavery of non-Muslim little white girls makes non-Muslim innocents suspected of being involved in terrorism?????????????????

Hundreds of Muslims who returned to Britain from joining ISIS and perpetrated SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE ATROCITIES, RAPES, MURDERS, BEHEADINGS and SEX SLAVERY of innocents are NOT considered terrorists by HM Government.

Muslim terrorists are REWARDED for their great evil and given FREE homes, money and welfare benefits. It’s an ENTICEMENT to ENCOURAGE behaviour that APPROVING UK ruling elites seek to FORTIFY and ENCOURAGE.

“The only thing more horrifying than a pack of grown men brutally gang-raping, pimping, torturing, and mutilating an 11-year-old girl is a modern nation like Great Britain letting them do it, over and over again, for fear of insulting their culture.

Lucy Lowe was pregnant when she was murdered in a house fire in Telford
Azhar Ali Mehmood, 26, set the house fire which killed his girlfriend Lucy, 16
Mehmood was convicted of murder but was never charged over sex abuse
Telford has the third highest number of child sexual offences recorded in the UK, according to the Home Office

I don’t see this as a bad thing, rather a good thing. Brits will realize how dangerous their own government has become. They (Southern and others) should all get together and sue the British government.

Sad to see Great Britain reducing itself to being a slave of Islamic trash. The points made in the video seem quite on the mark; there is fear in the higher-ups and it is just easier to go after the civilized population to conform them to the Islamic trash. We must never allow this to happen to the United States. We are the final stand of the non-Islamic world, and may well be the protector of Western culture.